| Reference Number | t17860719-22 |
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| Verdict | Guilty |
| Sentence | Corporal > public whipping |
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582. JOSEPH JONES was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 9th day of June last, four linen shirts, value 4 s. one dimity waistcoat, value 12 d. and one petticoat, value 6 d. the property of Joshua Champness .
Mrs. CHAMPNESS sworn.
I am wife to Joshua Champness ; we keep a public house in Fulham-fields ; I lost the things mentioned in the indictment the 9th of June, I had been washing, and hung them out to dry, I went in to dinner, and was informed a man was come out of
my garden with a bundle, I ran into the garden, and missed the things, I made an alarm, the man was pursued after and taken, and the bundle was brought to me, it contained the things mentioned in the indictment.I pursued after and took the prisoner, I saw him put his right hand to his left side, and throw the bundle over the hedge into the garden of one John Lewis , I took him in about ten minutes; I did not see him come out of the garden, but the people cried stop thief.
- HICKMAN sworn.
I pursued the prisoner, and stopt him, and took charge of him, he said b - r your eyes, what do you want with me? he struck me with his fist, and I returned the same.
Did you see the man fling the bundle over the hedge? - No.
- NORTH sworn.
I was standing at my door, I saw the prisoner go by about two minutes before there was a cry of stop thief, I pursued him till he was taken at Lewis's garden, he made a bit of a stop, I thought he was going to jump over the hedge, he was not out of my sight till I caught him.
I am a constable, he was delivered into my charge with the property.
(The things deposed to.)
PRISONER's DEFENCE.
I am a waterman by trade; I had a fare to Fulham; I was walking along, and was not within three quarters of a mile of it, and they were singing out stop thief, and a parcel of people running, and I was with them for a considerable while, and several people asked me what was the matter, I said there was a thief, and one or two of them laid hold of me, and they said they supposed I was him; I never had the bundle, nor never saw it.
GUILTY .
To be publickly whipped one hundred yards next market day at Fulham .
Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice ASHURST.